A47407:607
The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,…
The breach repaired in God's worship, or, Singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, proved to be an holy ordinance of Jesus Christ with an answer to all objections : as also, an examination of Mr. Isaac Marlow's two papers, one called, A discourse against singing, &c., the other, An appendix : wherein his arguments and cavils are detected and refuted / by Benjamin Keach ...
London: printed for Author, 1691
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2. He intimates there are other ways of praising of God, besides Singing his Praise; though it clearly holdeth forth that our Saviour would praise God that way, namely, by Singing. And you would do well to observe what our late Learned Annotators speak upon that of Heb. 2. 12. these are are their words. Christ and they are of one Father, (that is, the Saints are here called his Brethren) he by Nature, and they by Grace, and from one Humane Parent, Luke 3. 23, 38. and both of one Flesh; He solemnly sung and Praised his Father with them (say they) at his Supper, Matth. 26. 30. in that Representative Church, Mark 14. 26.
Yet we, as I said before, do readily grant, as the Doctor intimates, those other ways of Praising of God, and that Prayer, the Word of •aith, and the Fruits of Obedience, hath a ⟨p. 18⟩tendency to the Praise of God: But if the Doctor, and some other Learned Men, should intimate, that that Greek word Hymnos should in a remote sense signify Praising of God without Singing: we ask, Whether any o• them say those ways of Praises, without Singing, is the immediate, genuine, direct and primary signification of the word?
Yet we, as I said before, do readily grant, as the Doctor intimates, those other ways of Praising of God, and that Prayer, the Word of •aith, and the Fruits of Obedience, hath a ⟨p. 18⟩tendency to the Praise of God: But if the Doctor, and some other Learned Men, should intimate, that that Greek word Hymnos should in a remote sence signify Praising of God without Singing: we ask, Whether any o them say those ways of Praises, without Singing, is the immediate, genuine, direct and primary signification of the word?